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Do octopuses dream? Neural activity resembles human sleep stages

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The Role of Sleep in Octopus

Some work a few years ago suggested that in cephalopods, there could be something like a more active stage of sleep. Is this really sleep? If it is, what's the meaning of these skin patterns? What's going on in the brain while these skin patterns are happening? These sort of questions. And to get a sense of what was going on, then, you were studying octopuses.

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